{"id":49,"date":"2010-08-06T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/08\/06\/a-new-valley-blocking-landslide-in-nepal\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:14","slug":"a-new-valley-blocking-landslide-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/08\/06\/a-new-valley-blocking-landslide-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"A new valley-blocking landslide in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ripendra Awal for the heads-up on this one.&nbsp; The tale of monsoon devastation in South Asia continues with new reports of a valley blocking landslide at Setikhola village, which is located in Narmajung VDC in Kaski District, Nepal.&nbsp; The landslide occurred on the morning of 3rd August, killing five people according to press reports.&nbsp; So far 300 people have needed to be moved due to flooding on the upstream side of the blockage.<\/p>\n<p>This perspective Google Earth image shows the landslide location &#8211; the image is from April 2008:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_08-Nepal-landslide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_08-Nepal-landslide.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, the size of the blockage is unclear at present.&nbsp; This map, prepared by Ripendra, shows the river network:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/10_08-Nepal-landslide-map_bmp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/bmp\/10_08-Nepal-landslide-map_bmp.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ripendra Awal for the heads-up on this one.&nbsp; The tale of monsoon devastation in South Asia continues with new reports of a valley blocking landslide at Setikhola village, which is located in Narmajung VDC in Kaski District, Nepal.&nbsp; The landslide occurred on the morning of 3rd August, killing five people according to press reports.&nbsp; So far 300 people have needed to be moved due to flooding on the &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,15,959,66],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barrier-lake","tag-landslide-dam","tag-landslide-report","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}